One of the things that I find myself regularly dealing with is learning new things "on the job." Not always at work, but often doing work in my home. As of late, I'm doing a lot of learning about how to properly cut and install ductwork...It's amazing the number of resources we now have at our disposal to help teach us how to do all of these things now! But sometimes, as I'm working on things, I realize I'm probably doing things the hardest way possible.
I remember being at a business seminar, and a wealthy individual was speaking about an employee he had. This was a maintenance and general help type of employee, and they did the repair work around his properties as well as groundskeeping and the like. And this speaker was a hard charging, really driven individual. And this employee, for a while, just seemed to take forever to do anything. So finally, the speaker shared stories about situations that arose, and he learned how he learned to check in, and asked "Have you thought of trying this?" And after a while, the employee thanked him for it, because the employee realized two things. First, they were making things harder than they needed to be. And second, he often had the same idea, but second guessed himself, and then just got stuck in a cycle of re-analyzing it endlessly.
In the end, the answer is to just do it. You can set a great many mistakes right. You can make a great many mistakes, and then learn how to fix them as you go. If it's going to be behind drywall, it's not as crucial to get everything perfect all the time. As close to perfect as you can is good enough. And if you get coaching from someone with experience, you are further ahead for doing so. We all know these things, right? But yet, how many of us still go and do it the hardest way possible, anyways!? I guess I need to spend more time asking questions as I go al